8 TOWER | FALL 2023 NEWS NOTES Keith Haring Fitness Court opens on campus KU and the Kutztown Community Partnership recently dedicated the Keith Haring Fitness Court with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The fitness court is located at Baldy Street and Normal Avenue on KU’s campus. The Keith Haring Fitness Collection is a limited edition, outdoor, public art collaboration with the Keith Haring Foundation in New York and Outdoor Fitness Court and the National Fitness Campaign. The fitness court features a 32-by-35-foot outdoor bodyweight circuit training system with 30 pieces of body-weight fitness elements, including seven full-body circuit training stations and a training wall. Students and faculty in the university’s sport management program dedicated some of their coursework toward programming for the fitness court. On June 26, KU and the Kutztown Community Partnership were awarded the Townie Award for Organizational Excellence and Community Partnership by the Pennsylvania Downtown Center for its work toward the fitness court. Accepting the award were Dr. Duane Crider, professor of sport management, and Jordan Davis '24, sport management intern who oversaw Keith Haring Day on May 4.
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